qunifont/README.md

Qunifont

Qunifont is a qunified version of the Unifont

Drawing new Qunifont glyphs (in pads)

Download, extract and rename the last Unifont tar.gz file (https://unifoundry.com/pub/unifont/?C=M;O=D) to get access to the Unifont utilities scripts

curl https://unifoundry.com/pub/unifont/unifont-16.0.01/unifont-16.0.01.tar.gz -o unifont.tar.gz
tar -xvf unifont.tar.gz
mv unifont-16.0.01 unifont

Draw glyphs in a pad following this format (hexadecimal identifier):

F4910:
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---#----######--
---#---#------#-
---#---#------#-
-##############-
---#------------
---#------------
---#------------
---#------------
---#------------
----##----------
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Run padascii2uniascii to download the pad's content and format it for the Unifont utilities (uniascii)

./padascii2uniascii.sh http://88.127.187.90:9001/p/qunifont > qunifont.txt

Use the Unifont hex glyphs as a base file

cp unifont/font/planee00/unifont-base.hex qunifont.hex

Convert uniascii to unihex and add them to the base file

./unifont/src/hexdraw qunifont.txt  >> qunifont.hex

Convert unihex to bdf

./unifont/src/hex2bdf qunifont.hex > qunifont.bdf

TODO: convert to OTF, add OpenType features, change metadata

Other useful commands

Convert unihex to png (-p for plage)

./unifont/src/unihex2png -i qunifont.hex -o qunifont.png -p 0

Convert unihex to sfd

??? see https://www.venea.net/man/hex2sfd(1)

Convert unihex to otf

./unifontsrc/hex2otf ??? 

Print specific glyph in terminal from hexcode

printf %b\\n \\UF1010
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printf %b\\n \\UFFE1
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printf %b\\n \\U1F480
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